Lincoln High School - Bumblebee Yearbook (Port Arthur, TX)

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f 7mm The traits of the Bumblebee: in Many ways reemble our nwni We might identify ourselves with their fighting spirit, and believe, as the authorities i tell us, that you can kill the bee, but you cannot conquer it. We might com- ; pare their neatness and orderliness in their hives and with themselves to the immaculateness of mind and body for which we nrive. It is written in their tongue, in their month, over every nrgan of their body, that they are in this world to make honey; a: it 1': written in our eyes, aur ears, mtr nerves, in every lobe of our brain, that we have been created to think, to reason, to understand, to improve aur sense al justice, cur knawledge. The bee: know not who will eat the haney they harvest, a: we know not who Jhall profit by the intellectual treasures we gather. As they go Imm llower to flower absorbing nectar beyand what they 01 their hive will need, so let us 50 Item thought to thought, forever seeking the truth. And let the knvwledge that this is our duty quicken lhe zeal and the udor with which we brighten the light of our intellectual lamps.